“…In the obese group, median follow-up was The present retrospective study was designed to assess the short-term surgical outcomes of laparoscopic surgery for obese patients with rectal cancer. Currently, the number of laparoscopic surgery has rapidly increased because of smaller skin incisions, reduced intraoperative bleeding volume, less pain, and earlier recovery of bowel movements, and the indications for laparoscopic surgery have been extended to include advanced cancer (Kaprin et al, 2019), but it is still generally assumed to be a difficult proposition, especially for obese patients. Many surgeons have generally thought that obesity might possibly increase operation time, intraoperative bleeding, and postoperative complications, so they are thus apt to hesitate about selecting laparoscopic surgery for a corpulent patient.…”